Hurricane Sandy hammered the mid-Atlantic region starting October 29, 2012. It was a terrible storm, and even now, approaching mid-November, areas hardest hit are still experiencing hardships.

Having dealt with many past BG&E power outages, most recently five days without power due to the June 2012 Derecho, I regularly capture their outage (bit) map for my own records. The derecho also motivated me to capture Dominion Electric VA’s outage map regularly for comparison. Here are examples for BG&E and Dominion VA for October 29, 2012 as Sandy made landfall:

Loops are available here for October 29 through November 3, 2012. The README.md contains some description and direct links to the raw gifs.

Luckily, my area maintained power all through Sandy’s attack. Time for a transfer switch, a portable power generator, and a fuel stock for the next unplanned outage.

Best wishes to those in NY and NJ for relief and restoration of services.